First of all, I am coming for a complete Noob perspective so I don't know much about how difficult it would be to change certain things...but if I had to pick 2 things I would like to see changed is like search function like you mentioned. I have such a hard time finding quality posts to comment on. I like to search through the new section because of I like to support Plankton like myself but I have to wade though thousands of posts to find that hidden gem.
I think that all the posts from Zappl, Dmania, etc should be seperated in a different layout both in the search and in your personal Steemit page. I really have avoided using Zappl and Steepshot because I don't want them showing up right over the blog posts that I took hours to write (it takes me hours because I have never written content before)
The other thing that I think would help the promotion of Steemit is maybe an affiliate sign up bonus (even if the incentive was a small amount of SP delegation) to encourage users to bring their friends onto Steemit.
I am actually working on a blog post about this from a noob perspective today and I realized that the future success of Steemit is dependent on the health of the crypto market as a whole. Since there is such a steep learning curve with Steemit people will need to learn the basics of buying crypto before they can even think of starting here. It would just be too overwhelming otherwise. I am however extremely hopeful about the future of Steemit :)
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Great comment @emmyem84! Yeah, even some easy filtering options would drastically improve the search results already or at least a way of excluding posts with certain characteristics (specific tags like you mention, or just filter out posts that have less than 100 characters of something).
On the promotion part an affiliate construction might work. Personally I am not always a fan of those since it is a 'push' incentive rather than a 'pull' incentive. But that is my opinion. Might work though!